What I would like to see is every song on iTunes that comes from a distributor under the RIAA umbrella marked on the site as "RIAA Affiliated" or some such.
That would just add a tag to nearly every song in the inventory.
Not according to the link you provided. The Wikipedia entry says otherwise.
To be precise, the article says "he showed deception on three polygraph tests". That doesn't mean that he failed the tests, it means that the examiner found something to browbeat him over, which is quite routine. If he'd actually failed the tests, he wouldn't have been able to keep his security clearance.
I may be way off base with this, but that link states that he failed every lie detector test he took.
No, he passed. There's usually something in any poly test that the examiner will point to so he can sweat you a bit. The machine is just a prop, really. The point of the exam is just to subject you to an intense interrogation.
No, you still can't detect lies with an MRI. You can observe brain activity which may or may not correlate to deception, which will differ greatly for each individual you examine.
To actually detect lies, you have to know everything the person making a statement knows, and then you still don't know if he's lying or just misinformed.
A "Lie Detector" is a fantasy. Machines can detect physiological clues to nervousness, and that's it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames> Aldrich Ames passed his polygraph exams for years, while he was getting every US agent in Russia killed.
Depending on fantasies like "lie detectors" distracts law enforcement from practicing solid investigation.
You know for a fact the only reason he writes those bullshit cover articles is to get press for himself and his company.
Did you ever have the ability to distinguish between facts and your opinion? Why shouldn't he write articles? He's well qualified to comment on the subject matter.
What did he do, steal your girlfriend or something?
Bruce didn't claim that he found it, he had something to say about it, and he did a fine job of writing about it for the non-technical audience that reads Wired.
I swear to god that guy [Bruce] hasn't contributed anything meaningful to the public since 1998 and yet he's still fucking there.
Even if you were right about that, so what? What have you done that tops Applied Cryptography?
This is not a grey area, this is a crime, and it is also a civil tort. Sony will learn this at great expense over the next couple of years in litigation.
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Guess again. A well-done customizaiton like that could easily add hundreds to its value on e-bay.
-jcr
Probably not, unless the laser burns all the way through the case.
-jcr
In fact, I don't know why I'm even posting this
Let me guess... Because you can't help yourself?
-jcr
Whatever happened to being polite when visiting somebody?
Whatever happened to being polite to one's guests?
RMS was right, the UN organizers were wrong. End of story.
-jcr
I take exception to many things that RMS says and does, but I'm with him 100% on this one. Way to go, Richard!
-jcr
Hyperthrashing?
-jcr
As a side-note, Yahoo is superior to ITMS in every way other than not working with IPods.
Hydrogen is superior to gasoline in every way other than working in cars that people already have.
-jcr
What I would like to see is every song on iTunes that comes from a distributor under the RIAA umbrella marked on the site as "RIAA Affiliated" or some such.
That would just add a tag to nearly every song in the inventory.
-jcr
Lie detectors only detect if you think you are lying
No, they're not even that good. They report physiological data, the interpretation of which is highly subjective.
-jcr
See my reply above. Also, he had more than three poly exams in the time he was working for the Soviets.
-jcr
Not according to the link you provided. The Wikipedia entry says otherwise.
To be precise, the article says "he showed deception on three polygraph tests". That doesn't mean that he failed the tests, it means that the examiner found something to browbeat him over, which is quite routine. If he'd actually failed the tests, he wouldn't have been able to keep his security clearance.
-jcr
I may be way off base with this, but that link states that he failed every lie detector test he took.
No, he passed. There's usually something in any poly test that the examiner will point to so he can sweat you a bit. The machine is just a prop, really. The point of the exam is just to subject you to an intense interrogation.
-jcr
No, you still can't detect lies with an MRI. You can observe brain activity which may or may not correlate to deception, which will differ greatly for each individual you examine.
To actually detect lies, you have to know everything the person making a statement knows, and then you still don't know if he's lying or just misinformed.
-jcr
It's a gray area because Sony claims it is DRM, which is illegal to remove.
Sony has damaged other people's property. I can chase a burglar, but if he hides in your house I'm not entitled to burn it down.
-jcr
A "Lie Detector" is a fantasy. Machines can detect physiological clues to nervousness, and that's it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames> Aldrich Ames passed his polygraph exams for years, while he was getting every US agent in Russia killed.
Depending on fantasies like "lie detectors" distracts law enforcement from practicing solid investigation.
-jcr
Looks like Sony's a PR client of this crazy bitch.
She's got a track record of PR disasters all her own.
-jcr
he's not the only cryptographer out there.
When did he ever claim to be?
You know for a fact the only reason he writes those bullshit cover articles is to get press for himself and his company.
Did you ever have the ability to distinguish between facts and your opinion? Why shouldn't he write articles? He's well qualified to comment on the subject matter.
-jcr
What did he do, steal your girlfriend or something?
Bruce didn't claim that he found it, he had something to say about it, and he did a fine job of writing about it for the non-technical audience that reads Wired.
I swear to god that guy [Bruce] hasn't contributed anything meaningful to the public since 1998 and yet he's still fucking there.
Even if you were right about that, so what? What have you done that tops Applied Cryptography?
-jcr
Not surprising given that this is grey area.
Nope.
This is not a grey area, this is a crime, and it is also a civil tort. Sony will learn this at great expense over the next couple of years in litigation.
-jcr
It is their stuff, and they can price it at any level they want.
Of course it's their prerogative to set their prices as they like, but their liberty to do so doesn't include an immunity from criticism.
-jcr
I'm sure in a few [weeks/months/years] someone will have a binary stripper to remove the unnessicary part of the Universal Binary.
/usr/bin/lipo on any Mac OS X machine.
This has been in NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X all along. See
-jcr
How big are these mailboxes that you need 64-bit processing space??? *boggle*
I knew that goddamned HTML mail would lead to this!
-jcr
Or perhaps this same corporate umbrella could prohibit a lot of what would otherwise be published. It could go both ways.
So, someone starts another conference. No biggie.
-jcr
Hope springs eternal!
-jcr
The Puppy Linux distro makes an absolute joke of Windows XP....
Since when is another OS required for Windows to be joke?
-jcr